Sentences with phrase «quarter point every time»

In the years ahead of the financial crisis, Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman, systematically raised the benchmark rate a quarter point every time he gathered the Federal Open Market Committee.

The Fed expects to raise rates three more times, at a quarter point each time, in 2016.

The Federal Reserve seems to have at least three rate hikes built into its 2018 schedule, and even though it's anticipated they'll be small — a quarter point each time — that means the overnight rate (the rate banks charge each other) will be nearly a point higher in 2019 than it is now.

Not exact matches

«They did three times as many iPhones in the last quarter, at a price point that is almost 10 times the size.»

In order to get digital to the point where it is compensating for print's decline, the Times would have to add as many new subscribers this quarter as it did in the last quarter, and then do so again in the next quarter, and the one after that, and the one after that.

You can opt to do it during a scheduled performance review or select another time that may seem like an opportune point in the year to discuss a raise, preferably right after a great quarter of financial results.

The last time the U.S. went through a partial government paralysis in 1995 - 1996 — for roughly three weeks in two separate instances — economic growth slowed by a quarter of a percentage point during the last three months of 1995.

Jamie Baker, an analyst at J.P. Morgan, points out in an April 23 report that in Q1 the company posted a $ 7 million profit, the first time it's had a profitable first quarter since 2000.

The balance sheet is a financial statement that summarizes a company's assets, liabilities, and shareholder's equity at a particular points in time (at the end of a fiscal quarter or year).

The downside is that the interest rate on a HELOC is variable and often tracks any movement in the federal funds rate, which is expected to increase up to three more times after this week's quarter - point hike.

Balance sheets provide a company's financial position at a particular point in time (generally at the end of a quarter or year).

At the time, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, estimated higher oil prices had chopped 0.5 percentage points from growth in the first quarter.

As my colleague Russ Koesterich pointed out earlier this week, the start of a new quarter is always a good time to take a step back and give your investment portfolio another look.

October's third - quarter - earnings beat sent McDonald's shares to an all - time high, boosting the Dow by 47 points.

The Fed has raised its policy rate by a quarter - point five times starting December 2015.

The Bank of Canada has already raised interest rates three times since July, but the benchmark rate is still three - quarters of a percentage point below the 2 - per - cent inflation target.

Bed Bath & Beyond's top - line trends in the fourth quarter were better than expected, but at the same time gross margin declines accelerated from 174 basis points in the prior quarter to 213 basis points, Benedict said in a note.

Combined with higher revenues from Plus Points, one time use points provided as incentives, the company generated $ 8 million of rental revenue net of expenses, a $ 6 million increase from the first quarter ofPoints, one time use points provided as incentives, the company generated $ 8 million of rental revenue net of expenses, a $ 6 million increase from the first quarter ofpoints provided as incentives, the company generated $ 8 million of rental revenue net of expenses, a $ 6 million increase from the first quarter of 2011.

Q1 Guidance: At this point in time, 25 companies in the index have issued EPS guidance for the first quarter.

At this point in time, all 114 of the companies that issued EPS guidance for Q3 2013 have reported actual results for the quarter.

Counterpunch Against the recommendations of most economists and even the Financial Times of London, the Federal Reserve Board yesterday cut its discount rate by yet another quarter - point, to just 2 %.

On the one hand, he pointed out, the very definite concepts of the ministry held in some quarters conflicted with the desires or needs of students and congregations and with the temper of the times.

After the third quarter of a piano - wire - tight Game 3 between the Kings and the Jazz last Saturday, forward Chris Webber bellowed at his point guard, «It's time to play Kings basketball.»

Case in point was back in November, when head coach Mike D'Antoni disrespected the four - time All - Star in the worst way imaginable — he benched him late in the fourth quarter of a game that the Lakers had a chance to win.

Longtime state rivals face off for the first time since... Dec. 19, 2015, in an intensely strange Las Vegas Bowl that featured a 35 - 0 first quarter lead for Utah followed by a 28 - point comeback.

The Giants offense eventually turned that into three points, kicking a field goal with 12:44 left in the second quarter to go up 13 - 3 at the time.

Being that it was the second time in six games that they got their doors blown off, I figured it was time to take a look under the hood and break down exactly how they allowed a team to come onto their home field and score 28 unanswered points in the first quarter alone.

With 14:14 left in the fourth quarter, he sacked Hill on third - and - 4 to force the Rams to punt, even though they were down 14 points at the time.

Not only did Butler help the Bulls come back from 21 points down in the fourth quarter (Butler scored 20 in the quarter), but he finished the game with a three pointer as time expired during Thursday's game vs. the Hawks.

So, MC SAm P, you do sound like flop rapper lost in time; of course if Man U lost, we can still win the EPL, specially with Man City 12 points ahead we not yet quarter of season, we will catch up and pass MU who are 7 points clear even losing... Then we only travelling to Everton, we lost home against waford, if we can drwa their be awsum to win this, yes yes yo, to the beat yo..

Two of those times were 4 point advantages, and then there was the 3rd quarter debacle in game 5.

It took eight minutes for Tom Thibodeau to put Gibson into the game in the third quarter, and the Bulls were down 17 points by the time he did.

The Pacers center recovered to the rim just in time to meet James in the air and alter his shot with Indiana clinging to a five - point lead with under 2 minutes to go in the fourth quarter.

A third - quarter rushing touchdown put the Ravens back on top of the Patriots by a single point, 21 - 20, with plenty more time to play in their Week 3 rematch of last season's AFC Championship game.

This is important not only because those points are more valuable for obvious reasons, but because shots in the fourth quarter and especially crunch time are more difficult to make - take a look at the league leaders in points in the fourth quarter and you'll see almost all of them shoot below their averages.

During Buffalo's 3 - game meltdown, any points produced in garbage time in the 3rd or 4th quarter (The games were that bad) would artificially inflate your stats against a prevent defense / a defense with no realistic shot of actually choking.

Getting a lift from Scott and others off their bench, the Wizards trimmed the Bulls» lead to four points three times in the second quarter.

Tuesday marked the 1st time since Dec. 3, 2003 — LeBron's rookie season — that he scored only 2 points over the last 3 quarters of a game

Lillard appeared to tweak his left hip late in the quarter, and at times he grimaced - but he had 15 points in the period to help keep the Blazers in it.

Lin has been brilliant at times, and finished with a tidy four - point, three - assist, three - steal quarter.

When the match race takes its place in racing's history books, the fundamentalists will almost inevitably give decisive weight to the circumstance mentioned by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons elsewhere in this issue: over an off track (in patches slow) Nashua and Swaps raced together at killing early speed: five - eighths of a mile in 58 seconds, three - quarters of a mile in 1:10 2/5 — two seconds faster than Swaps's time at the same point in the Kentucky Derby over a fast track.

«It's not a (make - or --RRB- break point but it's a very important week because we can win the first title of the season and we are going to try to qualify for the first time for the quarter - finals of the Champions League,» Pellegrini said.

This was Detroit's first win of the season by more than seven points and first time the team hadn't trailed in the fourth quarter.

When academics choose to litigate speech disputes with colleges and universities, they end up losing nearly three - quarters of the time — a finding that points to the growing tension between academic freedom and campus speech codes, said Michael LeRoy, a professor of labor and employment relations at Illinois and author of the paper.

While Hemsworth doesn't have a lot of screen time as the other characters, one particular scene is a pivotal plot point on why the President institutes the Quarter Quell.

The next time someone questions the taste of American moviegoers, I encourage you to point out that more than three - quarters of the global earnings of Transformers: Age of Extinction

March 21, 2018 • The central bank raised its key interest rate for the first time under Jerome Powell, announcing a quarter - percentage - point hike.

For this people - orientated performers, a third believed that even the smallest gesture of thanking people for their input goes a long way in motivating them to participate and, case in point, three quarters of workers remember a time they were verbally praised.

The government pointed to PISA data that showed more than a quarter of pupils (28 per cent) in England hope to be working in a science - related career by the time they are 30, a «significant increase» compared to 16 % in 2006.

AMG points out drivers can also use the Track Pace function as a stopwatch to time zero - to -60-mph and quarter - mile sprints.